Georeferenced soil provenancing with digital signatures.
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SUBMITTER: Tighe M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5816621 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
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Georeferenced soil provenancing with digital signatures.
Tighe M M Forster N N Guppy C C Savage D D Grave P P Young I M IM
Scientific reports 20180216 1
The provenance or origin of a soil sample is of interest in soil forensics, archaeology, and biosecurity. In all of these fields, highly specialized and often expensive analysis is usually combined with expert interpretation to estimate sample origin. In this proof of concept study we apply rapid and non-destructive spectral analysis to the question of direct soil provenancing. This approach is based on one of the underlying tenets of soil science - that soil pedogenesis is spatially unique, and ...[more]
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